Red Torch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.
Summary: The founders of Norse Corp., the company behind a widely displayed interactive cyber attack map that shut down abruptly in 2016 after burning through millions in venture funding, have launched RedTorch, a Woodland Hills, Calif. security and investigations firm whose archived site marketed counter-surveillance hardware called Cheetah and a background-check product called Frigg. Frigg's pitch claimed machine learning analysis of a subject's internet footprint, references to OFAC and INTERPOL lists, and plans for one of the world's largest facial recognition databases drawing on data from breaches of Ashley Madison, LinkedIn, Dropbox and AdultFriendFinder.
Key Takeaway: The same executives whose 2014 Iran report was built on honeypot traffic rather than real industrial control system attacks, and who privately claimed the Sony hack was an insider job never supported by published data, are now pitching facial recognition and background checks on breach data to high-end clients.
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